Amanda Elizabeth (Taylor) Norris M.D. (1849 - 1944)

Born 6 Feb 1849 in Harford, Maryland, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Francis Cardiff Norris — married 29 May 1883 in Maryland

Descendants

Died Apr 1944 at age 95 in Pikesville, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Amanda (Taylor) Norris M.D. is Notable.

Dr. Amanda Norris was born in 1849. She graduated from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1880. Returning to Baltimore with this degree, she became the first female physician in Maryland. She was a Professor of Practical Obsetrics at the Women's Medical College of Baltimore as well as a physician in private practice.

In 1929, the Women's Medical Society held a dinner honoring her for 50 years in the profession. She passed away in 1944. She was posthumously inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1995 ^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshallfame/html/norris.html

• "Dr. Amanda Norris, Dean Of Woman Doctors, Has Long Record Of Service" (PDF). The Baltimore Sun. 1921-09-04. Retrieved 2021-05-17. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013500/013595/pdf/sun4sept1921.pdf
• "Women to Honor Dr. Amanda Norris" (PDF). The Baltimore Sun. 1929-11-09. Retrieved 2021-05-17. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013500/013595/pdf/sun9nov1929.pdf
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3KS-R4R : accessed 4 April 2021), Amanda T Norris in household of Frank C Norris, Election District 11, (west part), Baltimore, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 7A, family 139, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,607.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3WK-CTV : accessed 5 April 2021), Amanda Taylor in household of Olaf S Rask, Baltimore (Districts 501-673), Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 583, sheet 4B, line 84, family 89, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 856; FHL microfilm 2,340,591.
• Wikipedia biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Taylor_Norris

Find a Grave, database and images https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51369952/amanda-t-norris : accessed 14 April 2022), memorial page for Dr Amanda T Norris (6 Feb 1849–27 Apr 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51369952, citing Union Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Joppa, Harford County, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by Beth Painter (contributor 47022293) .